November i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



53 



NEW GOODS AND SPECIALTIES IN RUBBER. 



THE COILE BATH TUB. 



THIS is a soft rubber, inflatable, collapsible bath tub, with- 

 out wooden or metallic stays or bars, designed for the 

 purpose of conveniently and safely administering the 

 Brand (bath) treatment to typhoid fever patients and 

 others requiring this treatment, without necessitating their re- 

 moval from the bed. The bath is recognized by the medical 

 profession generally as the best known treatment in typhoid 

 fever, but its use is limited by a lack of suitable bath apparatus. 

 The best authorities agree that whenever the Brand treatment 



has been used it has greatly reduced the mortality rate. The 

 device patented by Dr. Henry P. Coile, Knoxville, Tennessee, 

 and here illustrated, is a full sized bath tub with an air pump 

 attached. The bottom of the tub is a strong oval rubber sheet. 

 The walls attached to the margin of the bottom are a series of 

 superimposed communicating horizontal air chambers, extend- 

 ing entirely around the bottom. Inflated they form a strong air 

 cushioned wall ; collapsed they form a border around the bottom 

 which is not of sufficient thickness to be in the way of helping 

 the patient on or oR the deflated tub. Air escape valves are 

 placed on both ends of the tub, which serve the purpose of 

 allowing it to rapidly collapse alter the bathing has been done. 

 On a level with the bottom is a funnel sleeve through which 

 water may be poured into the tub. It serves also the important 

 function of quickly emptying the tub when desired, by lowering 

 its extremity into a vessel on the floor at the side of the bed. 

 This is essentially a portable bath. The tub, pump, towels, 

 rubbers, and sponges may be packed for easy transportation in 

 a suit case and carried by a boy or conveyed by a physician in 

 his carriage to the patient without inconvenience. It may be 

 used on a suitable hospital carriage or a table, but is especially 

 designed for use on the patient's bed. The United States 

 patent on this device. No. 755.747, was dated March 29, 1904. 



DR. TULLAR's FRENCH DOUCHE. 

 This new syringe is made entirely of rubber, and has many 

 advantages over other syringes of similar appearance. The 



patent vaginal spray- 

 ing dilator is entirely 

 different from all 

 others. It is made 

 .91^ °f highly polished 



jets tocome indirect contact with allsurfaces. With the "French 

 douche," the outflow of injected fluid is not obstructed, as with 

 the old style syringe ; it flows along the spiral grooves, thor- 

 oughly deterging the entire passage. This syringe being made 

 with a special bulb, and also extra large valves and supply pipe, 

 has four times the spraying capacity of bulb syringes of this 

 general appearance ; with one insertion of the pipe any quantity 

 of water or medication, may be used. [The Seamless Rubber 

 Co., New Haven, Connecticut.] 



PEERLESS RUBBER WAINSCOTING. 



The illustration 



hard rubber, and has curved dilating flanges or extensions, 

 which keep the parts expanded when in use, causing the 28 spray 



re- 

 lates to an entirely new 

 material for wainscoting 

 bathrooms and lavato- 

 ries in parlor and sleep- 

 ing cars, hospitals, and 

 the like. It is absolutely 

 impervious to liquids, 

 thereby presenting a 

 surface thoroughly sani- 

 tary, clean, and hygienic. 

 It will not crack or peel. 

 It is made in sheets of 

 any width to 36 inches, 

 and in any length that 

 may be desired. As 

 made usually the thick- 

 ness of body is ,',; inch, 

 the molding '/s inch, and 

 base X inch. The trade 



is invited to ask for samples and prices. [The Peerless Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., New York.] 



-STEARNS'S PUNCTURE RESISTING TIRE. 



In a new form of pneumatic motor tire the inflatable inner 

 tube has wrapped about it two or more puncture resisting pads, 

 the whole being protected by an 

 outer sheath. The form of one of 

 these protective pads is shown in 

 cross section in the lower part of the 

 illustration ; the general form of 

 construction in the upper part. Each 

 pad consists of a casing of thin rub- 

 ber, filled with cotton fiber in the 

 form of felt. Between each two pads, 

 and between the last pad and the 

 outer cover, is a thin layer of rub- 

 berized cotton duck, designed as a 

 " binder "to hold the different parts 

 of the tire more closely together. 

 The inflation of the inner tube 

 serves to compact the fiber pads, 

 and thus add to their resistance to 

 puncture. Besides, the alternation 

 of pads and "binders" renders a nail, for example, less 

 liable to penetrate to the air tube than if the protective body 

 were in a single layer, even if equal in thickness to the tire as 

 now constructed. This tire has been patented by William F. 

 Stearns, a rubber factory superintendent at Batavia, New York ; 

 United States patent No. 794,197. 



